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| name = Boris the Spider | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = The Who | album = A Quick One | EP = | A-side = "Whiskey Man" | written = | published = | released = 1966 (Album) 1967 (Japanese B-side) | format = | recorded = 4 October 1966 | studio = | venue = | genre = Rock | length = 2:29 | label = | writer = John Entwistle | composer = | lyricist = | producer = Kit Lambert | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = | next_title = | next_year = }} "Boris the Spider" is a song written by The Who's bass guitarist, John Entwistle. It appears as the second track of their 1966 album A Quick One. This song is claimed to be Entwistle's first composition, and became a staple of live shows.[1] This song, along with "My Wife", "Heaven and Hell" and "The Quiet One", were Entwistle's biggest songs to perform live. "The Quiet One" was written to replace this song and "My Wife", which Entwistle had become quite tired of singing.[2] Though this song was popular, it was not released as a single in the US and the UK. In Japan, "Boris the Spider" was released as the B-side to "Whiskey Man" in 1967. "Boris the Spider" was written after Entwistle had been out drinking with the Rolling Stones' bass guitarist, Bill Wyman. They were making up funny names for animals when Entwistle came up with "Boris the Spider". The song was written by Entwistle in six minutes and is considered a horror song.[3] The chorus of "Boris the Spider" was sung in basso profundo by Entwistle, mimicking a popular Spike Milligan character, Throat, from The Goon Show, (which possibly helped give birth to the "death growl"), with a middle eight of "creepy crawly" sung in falsetto. These discordant passages and the black comedy of the theme made the song a stage favourite. According to Pete Townshend in his song-by-song review of Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy for Rolling Stone, it was Jimi Hendrix's favourite Who song.[4] Subsequent to A Quick One, the central riff appears again as an encore to The Who's rendition of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King recorded during the sessions for The Who Sell Out, but Entwistle sings "Radio London" instead. Although not released as part of the original listing of The Who Sell Out, the track appears on both the 1995 and 2009 reissues. Sequel"My Size", the opening track of Entwistle's 1971 solo album Smash Your Head Against the Wall, is a sequel to "Boris the Spider." The closing riff of the song is the same as the one heard throughout "Boris the Spider." Regarding this, Entwistle stated:
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=A Quick One|url=http://thewho.com/album/a-quick-one/|publisher=The Who|accessdate=23 February 2013|quote=The very first song that John wrote for The Who endured as a live favourite while he was alive. The band even played it on their 25th anniversary reunion tour in 1989.}} {{A Quick One}}{{John Entwistle}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Boris The Spider}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/FaceDances.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219112406/http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/FaceDances.htm |archivedate=19 December 2014 |df=dmy }} 3. ^{{cite web|last=Swenson|first=John|title=The Who Puts the Bomp|url=http://www.thewho.net/articles/townshen/crawdaddy_71.htm|work=Crawdaddy|publisher=(Online archive) The Hypertext Who|accessdate=23 February 2013|date=5 December 1971}} 4. ^{{cite news | title= The Who's 50 Greatest Songs |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-whos-50-greatest-songs-20160303/boris-the-spider-a-quick-one-1966-20160303| last1= Browne | first1= David|last2= Fricke| first2= David|last3= Dolan| first3= Jon| last4= Grow| first4= Kory| last5= Gehr| first5= Richard| last6= Greene| first6= Andy| last7= Hermes| first7= Will | date=3 March 2016| work= Rolling Stone |publisher= Jann Wenner| accessdate= 9 May 2018 }} 5. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s_GSCi4jE0 6. ^IMDb.com. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120053/trivia The Saint]. Retrieved 4 August 2015. 7. ^Skagboys [https://books.google.fr/books?id=8niltqUk05AC&pg=PT130&lpg=PT130&dq=skagboys+boris+spider&source=bl&ots=Z10rdCL2Fs&sig=b8a3jdyPy73zdY057QVEzvSNIpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmkte6wq7cAhUO26QKHcE6D4EQ6AEIfDAR#v=onepage&q=skagboys%20boris%20spider&f=false] 8 : The Who songs|1966 singles|Fictional spiders|Songs about animals|Songs written by John Entwistle|Novelty songs|Song recordings produced by Kit Lambert|1966 songs |
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